You look like a movie. You sound like a song

To be­gin with, I was happy enough to lament – along with ev­ery­one else – the hor­ri­ble sound the vast ma­jor­ity of TVS make. It of­ten seems the bet­ter the picture, the more un­der­mined it is by the thin, shrill, en­tirely un­sat­is­fac­tory noises that ac­com­pany it. Lately, though, I’ve come to re­alise the so­lu­tion is in our own hands. We are far from short of bril­liantly ef­fec­tive, beau­ti­fully dis­creet ways to put a rocket up the sound of our TV – check out the mix of six sound­bars and sound­bases at a huge range of prices (p36) and re­alise you needn’t suf­fer the zizzy wasp-in-a-bot­tle sound your TV makes a mo­ment longer. There’s no longer an ex­cuse: sound­bars and/or sound­bases are now as af­ford­able and as com­pact as you need, and as ex­pen­sive, as multi-pur­pose and as au­rally stun­ning as you’d wish.